Michelle Phillips Quote

I didn't feel comfortable with American children. I certainly knew more about sex and drugs by the time I was eleven than they would ever know. My father used to ask me when I was thirteen if I needed a diaphragm. I said, 'No, Dad, really, I'm still a virgin.' He said, 'you let me know when you're not.'

On returning to California after having spent her early childhood in Mexico City, Rolling Stone no. 259 (February 23, 1978)